Vacuum-cleaner.



A. 0. GARMAN. VACUUM CLEANER.

APPLICATION TILED JULY 2. 1913.

Patented Dec. 1, 1914 INVENTOR 2 SHEETSSHEET 1 A. 0. GARMAN.

VACUUM CLEANER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 2, 1913.

Patented Dec. 1, WI

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2 WIT E5553 the surface to be cleaned and at the same time permit the device as a whole to be rocked more or less during the operation of the some. 1

Within the dust receptacle a dust screen 31.. is remombly disposed and may consist of conical cngeaof vi 'oven wire covered with fabric, the lower portion of which letter: projects upwardly through the bottom of the cage and receives the upper end of the pipe section 2 By moving the nozzle over the surface to be cleaned and at the some time reciprocatingthc cylinder 1. on the valved piston G, a continuous upward flow of air through the tubes will he caused and the suction thus created at the n'nmllii oi the nozzle will cause dust etc. to enter said nozzle and find its way to the dust chamber.

My impro ements are simple in construction and may be operated effectually with minimum exertion.

Slight changes might be made in the (letnils oficonstrnction of my invention without (Lapin-ting from the spirit thereof or limiting its scope and hence I do not wish to restrict inysel'l to the precise details herein set forth.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is i r In a vacuum cleaner, the combination with it pump "provided with a pipe depending therefrom, a. dust receptacle carried by the lower end of the pump pipe, and a pipe commnnicnting with and depending from the dust receptacle, of an elongated nozzle can ried by said hist'mentioned pipe, and trucks at respective ends of said nozzle, each truck pii'otzilly connected between itscnds to the nozzle and having its Wheels disposed one in front of another, I

in testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

ALVIN O. CARMAN.

ll itncsses EDWARD E. Hnnwoon, E. L. CARMAN. 

